Back to the Gulf

October 2/09 - Surfside, TX
Surfside RV Park
Mileage: 80 km
Total mileage: 4,326 km

This morning we had brunch with Greg and Abby before parting ways. "Brunch, is nout breakfast, is nout lunch, but is a very good meal with a slice of cantaloupe at the end." Any quote in this blog taken from The Simpson's is strictly taken without permission.

At about noon we left Bay City cycling into a strong headwind, using lots of steam. Deby and I had both come down with colds, however this seems to be the best country for the treatment of that ailment. There is no such thing as a dry cough with this humidity. We were both hacking up phlem everywhere. Lucky thing we weren't cycling in a group.

Again, we took Texas farm roads. Very well kept and lightly travelled. We pushed on to the junction near Lake Jackson, many small attractive communities in between. Very large Texas shade trees here, pastures and farming.

From the Lake Jackson area we went east back to the Gulf.

Pushing into the wind the trees began to disappear and the land flattened out into a sort of marsh. We cycled on toward Freeport and near the Gulf this area became very industrial. My Princess got a little testy here. (Did he mention how windy it was and that he got tired of going slow so no more wind break for me!!! Yup, got testy!) It was a hard day and navigating through this industrial area seemed to take forever. Finally, we crossed the bridges and came down to the coastal community of Surfside.

Surfside is a community on stilts on a sandbar. Absolutely no protection from the sea here. Amazing where people choose to live and/or build vacation homes. It appears that years ago already, the natural dunes must have been flattened out so that people could get closer to the water, destroying what little protection there originally was.

We could have stayed on the beach for free, but had no desire to para sail in our tent, so chose the RV Park where there was some wind protection. It was a nice stay.